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Florida Fruit.

In this region, also, cocoanuts and
pineapples are grown, and the CO.
coanut industry is being largely culti-
waited in south Florida. Pineapples
and cocoanuts pay very well. Ten
thousand pineapples can be raised, it IS
said, to the acre, and an acre of ground
will support fifty cocoanut trees. The
cocoanut trees require little cultiva-
ton. They begin to bear at from nine
to twelve years of age, and they pro-
duce from so to $50 nuts to the tree.
Cocoanuts bring about ) cents apiece
to the grower, and supposing, ten
acre grove will yield twenty thousand
nuts it will bring in an income of
81, 900 year. There have been many
cocoanut groves planted within
the last two or three years in south
Florida Mr.. Field, OF Middletown,
n. j., has about $50, 600 trees. They
are planted twenty feet apart each way
on a strip of land in Dade county, near
the Atlantic ocean. Mr. Field thinks
that the ground along the ocean is the
best for the cocoanut.
IN Monroe county there are also some
groves, at Charlotte harbor on the Gulf
OF Mexico, there are trees which produce
three hundred nuts apiece annually.
There are 325, 900 trees now in Monroe
county, of which fifty thousand were
set out last year. Florida grew about
one hundred thousand dozen pine
apples last year, and the day may come
when it will supply to the United States
the most of tropical fruits. Gen. Grant
said that Florida was capable of sup
plying the tropical fruits now used in
the United States and all of the $780,
UOO,O worth of sugar now imported,
and in his opinion it afforded the best
opening in the world for young men
OF small means and great industry.
think this is true to certain extent.
But the pioneer needs more capital to
begin his life here than in the western
states. Orange-growing and cocoanut-
growing require time before they be-
gin to yield a profit, but when the pro-
1T does come it amply compensates
the few years of waiting Cor. CIeUe-
land Leader.
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Horrors of Indian Warfare.

''Did / ever tell you of little incl
dent that happened during the Indian
war of 1892" said Lieut.. Morgan, of
the police force, yesterday. ''Well, |
was a member of company A, 9th Min
nesota volunteers. When we were up
in a county which had been devastated
by the Sioux there was detail from
our company sent out under the COM
mand of Capt Grant, of my company,
to bury the dead. Above Birch coulee
we found man who told US that he,
with his wife, two daughters, and a
little son, were in the garden when he
heard the crack of guns. His wife
and daughters dropped dead. He
grabbed the boy and started to run
down the road. He was followed by
the Indians, yelling savagely and
firing rapidly. He could not carry the
boy and get away, SO he dropped him
and ran on. The little fellow followed
him, shouting Papa, papar but was
soon overtaken by the Indians, and he
heard him shrek and knew that he
had been killed. After burying the
dead around Redwood we came back
by the way of where the man lived
and found the bodies of his wife and
daughters as he had said. Down the
road we found the body of the little
boy thrown into the hazel brush. The
bodies were all mutilated in a horrible
manner. At the fight at Birch coulee
the man was killed. If he told his
name | can not now remember. That
was one family entirely wiped out.
In all the reports of those dark days
this circumstance has never been pub
Hshed. st. Paul Pioneer Press.
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A Celebrated Russian Comedian.

Russia has just lost one of her most
celebrated comedians, VassiH Samoi-
loft, who was as much admired for his
ready wit as for his thorough knowl-
edge of his art. The old actor was
very fond of recounting his adven-
lures, one of which bears a strong
likeness to stories told of several other
comedians. On one occasion the EN-
peror Nicholas sent for him, and then
and there, without the slightest prep
aration or warning, told Samoiloff to
initiate him. The comedian promptly
seized helmet, placed 1t on his own
head, and then turning to the Minister
on duty said with an air of authority,
you will grant Samoiloff two months
leave and give him 5000 roubles out
of the Imperial Treasury" The Car
laughed heartily and ordered his Min
lister to comply with the command.
Another time SomOilOff, in a piece
which he was playing, initiated to the
life certain Count, who happened to
be among the audience, and who was
noted for his eccentricities and extray-
agance. The Count went up TO the
actor behind the scenes and congratu-
lated him upon his success, but added
that the resemblance would be more
striking if, instead of the gold shirt
studs which he was wearing, SamoilOff
would put on diamond studs. Then,
suiting the action TO the word, the
Count took off his own diamond studs
and presented them to the comedian.
Samoilotf was general favorite, and
his many sallies were applauded, even
by those at whose expense he INDUCED
his wit.-L0ndOn Telegraph.
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Old Spanish Mines.

81 see they have rediscovered those
old Spanish mines in Mexico again"
said mining man at the Palace last
evening. Those old abandoned
mines of untold wealth are rediscov-
cred about once in every three years
on paper. This seems to be a worse
case than usual, however. There is
more of it, and the wealth down those
old shafts seems to be something fab
ulous. 1t may be, but | would suggest
that those who will be asked to put
their money into a scheme to clean out
these old mines-which will come
neXt-gO down into Sonora and take
look at these old treasure-vaults for
themselves. This is only hint, YOU
know, but sometimes a hint is as good
as a kick.
Certainly" he continued, in re-
sponse to query, 81 mean to say that
l do not believe word of it. There
may be old Spanish mines down there
undiscovered, but not in such num-
bers, nor are they likely to be discov-
cred in any such romantic manner as
described, which has the aroma of vel
low-backed literature.
Ildceui IL Is my impression unaL tne
wealth of Mexico as to minerals is
greatly exaggerated. Up to now
nothing has been developed to war
rant belief in great and immensely
rich mines. In all Mexico there is no
mine like the Granite Mountain or the
Drum LummOn in Montana, the On
tario, the Yankee Boy in Colorado, or
the Lake Wallace mines in New Mex
leo. The prospectors who have
worked Mexico have almost invariably
returned to this country, and for many
years to come they will not find a
better field than their own land. There
is too much of the romantic about
these Mexican mines. San Francisco
Chronicle
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Wade Hampton's Belief in Prayer.

The love and admiration in which
he is held by the people of South Car
olina are illustrated in an incident re-
lated by Gen. Hampton when he was
recovering from his sickness.
Il am certain" he said. that my
life was saved by the fervent prayers
of the people of South Carolina. was
at the point of death and had lost all
interest in life when l received a letter
from an old Methodist minister, a
friend, telling me of the deep and de-
vout petitions put up for my rftora-
ton to health by the Methodist confer
ence then in session at Newberry.
The letter closed by begging me to ex-
ercise my will to live in response to the
supplcations of the people of the whole
State, who were praying for me night
and day in every household. When |
heard the letter read | promised my
sister that | would heed the kind, low
ing words of the man of God, and.
arouse my will to live. That night l
fell into a deep sleep and dreamed
most wildly that | was in a spacious
room, in which | was moved to all
parts Of the State, SO that | met my
assembled friends everywhere. | re-
member most distinctly of all old
Beaufort, where l had last been. l
saw immense assemblages, and as /
looked down upon them grave per-
sonage approached me and touched me
on the shoulder and said to me:
These people are praying for you.
Livei Live! Live!!" | never real
lied anything like it before. 1t seemed
a vision. | woke the next morning
feeling the life-blood creeping through
my veins, and l told my family that
the crisis was passed, and that should
get better. Il. L. White IN the diner
ican Aaqdzine.
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The New Ea ashiOned Bible.
1t may have softer words and smoo

1t may have softer words and smoother
phrases,
It may fash modern light upon our way;
Have other thought than that of revelation,
And give new rules to preach by and TO pray.
1t may read lighter, pleasanter and easier
Which hold their place in my old fashioned
Bible,
That lay-and lies-wide open on its stand.
Let those who will crave man-made modern
Versions,
Give me the Book my mother daily read,
And told the story of its well-wOrn pages
"Old fashioned Bible" full of lore and lesson
To follow closely throughout lifes fun day,
OF golden words, traced out in living letters,
10 guide earth's pilgrims safely on their
way.
Why need we change those words of Life
Eternal
Old words, of deep import yet ever new?
Gods Promises, why bring them into question:
God words 10 man, plain, steadtast, sure
and true?
Give me then, hencefortr, throughout life's
forever,
The BibIe-as it waste hold and keep;
To-day New Versions-why not, then, to-
Tomorrow, ah! the morrow when we sleep
The everlasting sleep that knows no waking,
save at the call of Him who gave His Word,
That they who read Alright and walk uprightly,
May hail with joy the coming of the Lord.
Touch Eot the Bible, then, with hands irrever-
ent;
Change not passage, not verse or line;
The Bible written out by inspiration,
That Bible-and that Only-shall be mine.
Clark w. Bryan, in Good HOUSEKEEPING.
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WHOLE NO. 1904.
The Girl Who Laughs.

One of our newspaper bards, says q
writer in the San Francisco Post, has
sung the praises of the girl who laughs
and doesn't care. And he is right. /
do not mean the giggling girl, but the
girl who can laugh heartily and merri-
ly when there is anything to laugh at.
| once heard lecturer bid young men
beware of marrying a girl whom they
had never known to laugh. Such a
one will seldom have the faculty of
making the best of things. | some
time since attended a theatre where
the play was stupid and the actors
poor. We were badly sold and dis
appointed audience, and so | turned
my attention to the latter for amuse-
ment. The couple at my left furnished
me with a most painful specimen of
the woman who cannot laugh, and my
heart ached for her husband, Jolly
looking gentleman who strove by
every means in his power to atone for
his wifes disappointment by his own
pleasantly and genial ways. Although
many of his soto voce remarks con-
vulsed his immediate neighbors, his
wife sat with never a smile on her
vinegar cOuntenance-Severity person.
flied. | would have given much to
shake her as soundly as she deserved.
Herbert Spencer says: Every power,
bodily and mental, is increased by
good spirits. There is no such tonic
as happiness" Cheerfulness ought to
be made one of the cardinal virtues,
and its cultivation a duty. For a
good, everyday household angel, COM
mend me to the woman who can
laugh, who can bear trihing disap-
pointmentS with cheerfulness, and can
even see a humorous side to a very
disagreeable situation. Believe me,
this faculty is of more value in home
than an overwhelming intellect or
knowledge of comic sections. The
woman who can laugh heartily is not
always the model housekeeper; she IS
more than likely to forget that there is
bread in the oven, but if she does she
will give you hot biscuits for supper in
the place of the burned bread. and
make them with the sweetest temper
in the world. This trick of ALWAYS
seeing the bright side, or of shining
up the dark one, is a faculty that can
be cultivated, and if we are not born,
as the Irish say, with the sunshine in
our hearts we may have so much as a
tallow dip that can be snuffed and
trimmed and coaxed into light that
may help somebody by It's brightness.
Call the world battlefield if you
like, but don't let your home life be a
battlefield, or, at least, let your weap-
ons be good humor and jollity, and you
will win-and that right nobly-every
time.
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He Never Heard OF 1t.

A wagon loaded with wood and
drawn by poor old horse, driven by
a negro, was standing on Montcalm
street the other day when a pedestrian
stopped and said:
MY colored friend, did you ever
here of transmigration?"
''NO, sab. Is it suthin' new?"
mot very. 1t is the theory that
man, after death, takes some other
FORM"
might turn into hoss, eh?n
That's it, You might turn into a
poor old horse like this and be over
worked and ill-ueated, as this one
evidently is. just back there little
way ! saw you beat him with the butt
of the whip"
Yes, l did; but you look heah. I
want to tell ye right yere and now dat
If L turn into an ole hoss an doan
kick de dashboard in de fust time Tze
struck l won't hev muffin to say no
NOAH. Dis ole hoss missed his onpor-
tunity thirty years ago, an he hasn't
got no remarks to make now."-Detrot
Free Press,
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RR ACE lip

You are feeling depressed, your appe-
tite is poor, you are bothered with Head
ache, you are fidgetty, nervous, and
generally out of sorts, and want to brace
up. Brace up, but not with stimulants.
spring medicines, or bitters, which have
for their basis very cheap, bad whisky,
and which stimulate you for an hour.
and then leave you in worse condition
than before. What you want is an alter
ative that will purify your blood, start
healty action of Liver and Kidneys,
restore your vitality, and give renewed
health and strength. Such medicine
you will find in Electric Bitters, and
only 90 cents bottlo at Henry Hinrichs
Drug Store. 3
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Two Very Deep Wells.

Belding Brothers, of Rockville,
Connecticut, silk manufacturers, have
a branch at Northampton, Massachu-
setts, and about two years ago began
sinking an artesian well there 1t has
now reached a depth of $40 feet
All but 200 feet of the boring has been
through sandstone. The Northamp-
ton Herald says of the work: When the
sandstone was first reached, it was
thought that at depth of 750 feet
that would be the last of it, but when
this depth had been attained, and the
sandstone still continued, it was then
predicted that by the time the drill
mad gone down 1850 feet it would be
through the stratum. But not so: and
again another prediction was in order,
and 1,5O0 feet was the depth named,
But now the best geoiogists are at
loss what to say, for the question how
far the sandstone does extend is
conundrum which they give up"
Professor Emerson, of Amherst Col
lege, and other eminent geOlogistS de,
clare that it is impossible to tell any,
thing about it. Mr.. Haskell, the So
licitor of the North American Mining
bplipdl WHICH IL SINKING Ine well,
has brought the matter before the
geologists of the Boston School of
Technology, and they do not attempt
to give any theory which affords any
encouragement as to how far it will
probably be necessary to 90 down be-
fore getting through with the sand
stone. The theory is that the sand
stone is the deposit of vast river cur
rent in the past ages, and therefore it
is difficult to arrive at any conclusion
as to what the depth OF this deposit
may be. The well is now the deepest
in the country, and, with one or two
exceptions, the deepest in the world
There is one in St. Louis 3, $50 feet in
depth, which flows seventy-five gal
Ions of pure water per minute.
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Lady Buffers picture entitled IA
Death in the Desert, was painted from
sketcnes s taken on the srrot. The lady,
,ludlns. unlng nef s'ay '.r Wady Halfa, was
pieient lsiiah @' .ne burial of a young En-
S'i'i vmcer two hours after his death
IN the wilderness. The incident fur
nished a pathetic theme. The dark
figures of the Arabs, the numerous
camels, the fair-faced Englishmen pay
ing the last homage to their comrade,
lent varied picturesqueness TO the
subject. The picture was painted in
Dinant, in Brittany, where General
and Lady Butler intend to spend the
summer.
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Minerals in China.

1he coal beds of China are five times
as large as those of all Europe, while
gold, silver, lead, tin, copper, iron
marble, and petroleum are ali found in
the greatest abundance. Owing to the
prejudice of the people the mines have
never been worked to any great extent,
1t beng the popular belief in China
that If these mines are opened
thousands 81 demons and spirits inn
pr-s@.ied in the earth would come forth
and fill the country with war and
suffering.
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know you viii always love me, but the
grave loosens all ties, and you have
been faithful till death.
And when. year later, Ellis Sar-
geant asked Amy to be his wife, there
was no disloyalty to the dead girl in
his heart, nor did Amy feel jealous
that his first love, his lifelong graft
tude, were given to the blind dis
figured girl lying quietly at rest be-
meath the violets.
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George Maxwell and Henry Niles
had desperate fightin Leadville, Col,
over gambling debt. They fought
until unable to longer stand on their
feet, then went to the floor in a dead
lock. They then began to bite each
other, taking mouthfuls of flesh from
the face, nipping off fingers and no-ae
until the crowd, thorou"r', .;atnnod noI'
toiG !L9m aPaft and carried them
die dG '-''' ioue.ngs. Niles will probably
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1t has been told by M. de St. Pierre
that when the man-of-war Valiant re-
turned from Havana in the year 1766,
the rats increased to such an extent
that they destroyed hundred weight
of biscuit daily. The ship was finally
smoked between decks and six hamp-
ers were, for some time, filed every
day with the rats that had been thus
l-illnd
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A clerical gentleman recently met a
couple of legal friends looking on at
the erection of the new courthouse.
The clergyman inquired, Have
old invitation, to view the ground
where you shall shortly lie?'." I'm
mediately one of the lawyers replied,
Not shortly, but continuously and
at great length. The minister bowed
and passed on.-Bridgep0rt Standard.
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The Rev. DR.. Talmage, who has just
returned to Brooklyn from his Western
tour, said in late sermon to mis- con-
gregation: Il have never seen such
Signs of life in business-I would call
it boom if | did not dislike the word,
The men who took Horace Greeley's
advice were right, | would give the
same advice to-day; nay, would 90
myself if any necessity was laid upon
me, as | told some of the Western
people"
Mr.. |. II. Polk. who has been ap-
pointed receiver of the United States
Land Office at Los Angeles. Cal, is a
Iennesseean. and nephew of the
"hghtlng Bishop Of the Rebel army,
the Rev. Dr.. Leonidas Polk.
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G. G. SEDGWICK,

. TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
a Office in Torrison's brick block, north end
9Th street bridge, Nanitowoc, Wisconsin. Coilec-
ions promptly attended TO.
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j. D. MARKHAM,

{ TTURNEY AND COUNS ELOR AT LAW,
"A ONCE, in TOrusou's Brick Block, Eighth
street, Man tOy DC, Wisconsin.
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CH & NASH

a TTORNETS AND COUSSELORS AT LAW
n Oice over First National Bank, Eighth 81
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WIN. RAHR'S SONS,

DREWER AND MALSTER, CORNER SIXTH
ID and Washington streets, South side. The
ii CHEST cash price paid for Barley.
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q A FORREST,

TTOREEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
4 Oflce in Carus' Block, first h'or, n dooI
leading to County Judges office, South Elghih
Street Naniscwoc Wiz. Collections promptly
atten5ed rol JULIO
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-or,Ry PTrBIIC AND MONEY BROKER.
y Legal papers drawn and money loaned on
GOOD security. ManitOwOc. Wis.
Office, west of ManitOwoc Savings BANK.
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scgvrrz MICHAEL KIRwAE.
SCRMIIZ e KIRWAN,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE IN Franz :
\ Block. South Eighth Street, tanitowoc'
wisconsin Lmayl
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DIR LOUIS FALGE.
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NFFICE at DR.. Pritchard's and near Esch':
( !l--a ao,,th slde. 24febSi
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f. S. LUHMANN, NJ. D.,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE AT
4 Residence of DR.. Z. Simon, Hancock street,
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FOR SALE

The undersigned offers for sale a farm con-
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Cato and described as follows: Nws NW@
Sec -. Town l9, Range -, containing 10 acres;
and \ = SW / NWs, same town. range and
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CHAS. II. SEEGER,

nENTIST. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN ANDER-
IL sons Block, Corner South Eighth aud Quay
Streets Manitowoc, Wis. Prompt attention Will
0e given to all work entrusted 20 me. apr 81
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: SANDER SON

NTANEFACTURERAN DDEALERIN BOOTS
M Shoes, Leather, &C, &C. shop on Buffalo
Street near the corner of Eighth Repairing
neatly and promptly executed
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WILLIAMS HOUSE.

D JOHNSTON, PROPRIETOR, Corner Of
n, Eighth and Franklin streets, Manitowoc.
4 drst-class American Hotel, centrally located,
offers every induccmeut to the travelling public.